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  Eiley. 
  This 
  insect 
  is 
  distributed 
  throughout 
  the 
  north-eastern 
  

   United 
  States 
  and 
  in 
  Central 
  Europe. 
  The 
  adult 
  is 
  a 
  small 
  two- 
  

   winged 
  fly 
  which 
  lays 
  its 
  eggs 
  in 
  the 
  clusters 
  at 
  blossoming 
  time 
  or 
  

   even 
  earlier. 
  Dr. 
  Felt 
  has 
  found 
  the 
  larvae 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  calyx 
  

   at 
  the 
  time 
  the 
  petals 
  fall 
  and 
  they 
  soon 
  work 
  their 
  way 
  into 
  the 
  young 
  

   fruit. 
  The 
  infested 
  pears 
  usually 
  crack 
  open 
  after 
  rain 
  and 
  thus 
  

   allow 
  the 
  maggots 
  to 
  escape. 
  These 
  maggots 
  go 
  into 
  the 
  ground 
  to 
  

   pupate 
  and 
  the 
  adults 
  emerge 
  the 
  following 
  spring. 
  Certain 
  varieties 
  

   as 
  Bosc, 
  Bartlett 
  and 
  Seckel 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  injured 
  more 
  than 
  others. 
  

   The 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  gradually 
  eradicated 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  but 
  main- 
  

   tains 
  itself 
  in 
  a 
  few 
  places 
  near 
  Newark 
  and 
  New 
  Brunswick. 
  No 
  

   remedial 
  treatment 
  is 
  known 
  other 
  than 
  gathering 
  and 
  destroying 
  

   the 
  infested 
  pears 
  before 
  the 
  maggots 
  leave 
  them. 
  The 
  injured 
  fruit 
  

   may 
  be 
  distinguished 
  by 
  their 
  deformed 
  appearance. 
  Cultivating 
  

   the 
  soil 
  during 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  June 
  would 
  doubtless 
  destroy 
  many 
  

   larvae 
  in 
  the 
  ground. 
  

  

  In 
  Greenwich, 
  Conn., 
  the 
  West 
  Indian 
  Peach 
  Scale, 
  Aulacaspis 
  

   pentagona, 
  Targ., 
  was 
  discovered 
  on 
  Chinese 
  privet, 
  Ligustrumibota. 
  

   It 
  had 
  not 
  previously 
  been 
  recorded 
  from 
  Connecticut. 
  It 
  infests 
  a 
  

   great 
  variety 
  of 
  plants 
  belonging 
  to 
  widely 
  different 
  botanical 
  famihes, 
  

   and 
  has 
  a 
  wide 
  distribution. 
  Dr. 
  H. 
  T. 
  Fernald 
  states 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  

   found 
  abundantly 
  on 
  flowering 
  cherry 
  imported 
  into 
  Massachusetts, 
  

   and 
  it 
  is 
  believed 
  that 
  this 
  insect 
  was 
  present 
  on 
  weeping 
  cherry 
  

   imported 
  from 
  Japan 
  three 
  years 
  ago 
  into 
  a 
  Connecticut 
  nursery. 
  

   These 
  trees 
  were 
  fumigated 
  with 
  hydrocyanic 
  acid 
  gas 
  and 
  when 
  

   examined 
  were 
  clean. 
  The 
  low 
  temperatures 
  experienced 
  during 
  the 
  

   winter 
  in 
  the 
  States 
  will 
  probably 
  prevent 
  this 
  scale 
  from 
  becoming 
  a 
  des- 
  

   tructive 
  pest. 
  When 
  not 
  covered 
  by 
  the 
  bark 
  of 
  the 
  host 
  plant 
  the 
  

   scales 
  are 
  white 
  and 
  conspicuous 
  like 
  therose 
  scale, 
  A. 
  rosae, 
  Bouche. 
  If 
  

   the 
  scale 
  withstands 
  the 
  winters 
  and 
  infests 
  and 
  injures 
  trees 
  and 
  

   shrubs 
  it 
  is 
  probable 
  that 
  a 
  thorough 
  spraying 
  with 
  a 
  good 
  contact 
  

   insecticide, 
  like 
  the 
  lime-sulphur 
  wash 
  or 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  oil 
  mixtures, 
  will 
  

   serve 
  to 
  hold 
  it 
  in 
  check. 
  I 
  

  

  Britton 
  (W. 
  E.). 
  Insect 
  Notes. 
  — 
  Rept. 
  Connecticut 
  Agric. 
  Expt. 
  Sta. 
  

   for 
  1913, 
  New 
  Haven, 
  1914, 
  pp. 
  250-256. 
  2 
  pis. 
  

  

  As 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  an 
  examination 
  of 
  unhealthy 
  and 
  dying 
  oak 
  trees 
  at 
  

   Greenwich 
  the 
  trouble 
  was 
  found 
  to 
  be 
  due 
  probably, 
  not 
  primarily 
  

   to 
  insects, 
  but 
  to 
  injury 
  from 
  cold 
  and 
  drought, 
  followed 
  by 
  attacks 
  

   of 
  borers. 
  The 
  spruce 
  bud 
  moth 
  {Tortrix 
  fumiferana, 
  Clem.) 
  was 
  very 
  

   abundant 
  in 
  1913 
  and 
  swarms 
  appeared 
  suddenly 
  on 
  31st 
  July. 
  The 
  

   parsley 
  stalk 
  weevil 
  (Listronotus 
  latiusculus), 
  not 
  previously 
  reported 
  

   from 
  Connecticut, 
  was 
  found 
  at 
  a 
  farm 
  in 
  New 
  Haven, 
  and 
  Pulvinaria 
  

   vitis, 
  L., 
  which 
  has 
  seldom 
  been 
  injurious 
  in 
  Connecticut, 
  has 
  badly 
  

   infested 
  some 
  silver 
  maples 
  at 
  Sound 
  Beach, 
  Stamford. 
  Omphalocera 
  

   dentosa, 
  Grote, 
  has 
  apparently 
  been 
  more 
  abundant 
  and 
  done 
  more 
  

   damage 
  in 
  1913 
  than 
  in 
  any 
  preceding 
  year 
  since 
  observations 
  began. 
  

   It 
  is 
  noted 
  that 
  the 
  egg-clusters 
  of 
  the 
  tussock 
  moth 
  (Hemerocampa 
  

   definita, 
  Pack.) 
  are 
  often 
  mistaken 
  for 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  gipsy 
  moth, 
  but 
  

   the 
  whole 
  cluster 
  is 
  more 
  loosely 
  constructed 
  and 
  the 
  eggs 
  more 
  exposed 
  

   in 
  the 
  former. 
  As 
  a 
  rule 
  also 
  the 
  eggs 
  of 
  Hemerocampa 
  are 
  deposited 
  

   •on 
  a 
  network 
  of 
  silk, 
  on 
  or 
  near 
  the 
  old 
  cocoon. 
  Gipsy 
  moth 
  eggs 
  are 
  

  

  